Interactive Map: Life Expectancy by Texas County

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington has released new county-by-county life-expectancy estimates — and we've culled them for Texas. Check out how life expectancy has changed by gender and by county between 1989 and 2009 with our interactive map.

The IHME researchers, who contributed to these Texas Tribune life-expectancy maps last year, found that life expectancy for women in hundreds of U.S. counties has dropped from 1989 to 2009. The average life expectancy for women improved by just 2.7 years between 1989 and 2009, while the life expectancy for men improved by 4.6 years. Though men may have simply had more room for improvement: Across the U.S., life expectancy in 2009 ranged from 66 to 81 for men, and 73 to 86 for women. In Texas, the average life expectancy for women improved by 2.1 years, and the rate for men matched the U.S. average at 4.6 years.

At the Texas county level, Collin County and Williamson County had the largest life-expectancy growths from 1989 to 2009 for men and women, at 7.1 and 3.7 years, respectively. No county experienced a drop in male life expectancy, but Anderson County saw the smallest growth at 0.1 years. Limestone County saw the largest drop in female life expectancy at -0.8 years.

Click on a county in the map below to see its statistics, and use the banners to the right of the map to change the focus. Or use the table below the map to compare all of the counties.